It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
George EliotIt is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.
George EliotThe scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George EliotI shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.
George Eliot